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Still life painting of fruit in a footed bowl, a white covered jar, and a bouquet of red and orange flowers in a striped pitc

Fruits and Flowers

Henry Lee McFee, 1927

Painting of a teal and yellow long-tailed bird perched on a branch of pink plum blossoms, with signature and red seals.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bird with Plum Blossoms)

Hanging scroll of a twisted pine, pink plum blossoms, bamboo and white narcissus beside a rock, in ink and colour.

Three Purities

Zhang Xiong, 1878

Painting of a yellow chrysanthemum on a slender stem with pale green leaves against an orange background.

Chrysanthemum

Piet Mondrian, 1906-42

Open album page with pink mallow flowers, yellow centers, green lobed leaves and buds on a pale background.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (mallow flowers)

Hanging scroll of a blossoming tree, yellow chrysanthemums and two birds beside a rock, with calligraphy at upper right.

Yellow Chrysanthemums and Red Osmanthus in the Style of Wang Yuan

Shen Zhou, 1468

Ink painting of a woman in a kimono riding a white elephant, with drifting petals on a pale misty ground.

Stand-in Fugen

Kitao Masayoshi, late 1700s-early 1800s

Open album page with a climbing vine of blue flowers, green leaves and pods on a gray branch, watercolor on paper.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Climbing Blue Flowers)

Painting of a chrysanthemum branch with pale lavender blooms and green leaves, with calligraphy and red seals on silk.

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Chrysanthemum

Chen Hongshou, 1598-1652

Persian calligraphy on gold panel framed by floral border with birds and deer on tan ground.

Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi, calligraphy: c. 1500-1540; border: c. 1630-40

Open album spread of painted pink flowers in blue, red, magenta, peach and white with green leaves and buds.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Pinks)

Painting of a pale pink orchid with buds and a hummingbird on a branch above a misty tropical mountain valley.

Orchid Blossoms

Martin Johnson Heade, 1873

Two crested gray birds perch among white blossoms and pink buds on a branch, with a small insect near the lower right.

Flowers and Birds

Qian Xuan, first half of the 14th Century

Watercolor album page of a rose branch with two pink roses, buds, and serrated green leaves on pale paper.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Rose)

Hanging scroll of peonies, plum blossoms, a vase, garden rock, flowers in a basket, crabs and a grasshopper on beige silk.

Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock

Okabe Ko, late 1800s

Album leaf of mandarin ducks under a maple tree with a full moon, beside a column of Chinese calligraphy.

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8

Fan Qi, early 1650s

Pink peony blooms, buds and green lobed leaves painted across an open album page.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Peony)

Ink landscape scroll with craggy mountains, pine trees, a small walking figure, and a boat beside a riverbank.

Landscape after Guo Zhongshu

Bada Shanren, c. 1680-1705

Pair of gold-ground folding screens painted with blue irises and green leaves in clusters across the panels.

Irises

Watanabe Shikō, 1700s

Open album page with a gray bird preening on a branch beside white blossoms and green leaves.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Preening Bird)

Hanging scroll of four court figures on a veranda beside a pine tree: one plays a zither, two play go, one writes.

The Four Accomplishments

Iwasa Matabei, c. 1620-50

Ink painting on silk of a tall lily, two butterflies, a small bird and a rock with grasses.

Lily and Butterflies

Liu Shanshou, 1300s

Album leaf with bamboo, rocks, orchids, gold clouds, red bats and a red circular seal on a pale background.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bats, rocks, flowers circular calligraphy)

Hanging scroll of a plum tree with dark curving branches and white blossoms above a rock on tan silk.

Plum Tree

Ogata Kōrin, c. 1700

Ink painting of gnarled pine trees with calligraphy columns and red seals on the right and lower left.

Five Pine Trees

Album leaf with red bats, blue bamboo, orchids, a pine on rock, gold clouds, and a large red seal at center.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bats, rocks, flowers oval calligraphy)

Album leaf of a cicada on willow branches beside a pale moon, with a calligraphy poem on the facing page.

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 6

Fan Qi, early 1650s

Hanging scroll of loquat branches with orange and green fruit, dark leaves, and calligraphy columns on pale paper.

Pipa (Loquats)

Xugu, c. 1888-89

Two sparrows with red caps face each other on a branch beside a white-blossomed tree and green grass.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Gossiping Sparrows)

Persian miniature of a woman in a palace with attendants, an elderly veiled woman and a youth with a golden vase below, gold-

Zulaykha in her palace and as an elderly woman with Joseph (recto), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahm…

Mushfiq, 1603-7